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We investigate a combinatorial two-player game, in which one player wants to keep the behavior of an underlying water-bucket system stable whereas the other player wants to cause overflows. This game is motivated by data management applications in wireless sensor networks. We construct optimal strategies and characterize optimal bucket sizes for many instances of this game.
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Bodlaender, M.H.L., Hurkens, C.A.J., Kusters, V.J.J., Staals, F., Woeginger, G.J., Zantema, H. (2012). Cinderella versus the Wicked Stepmother. In: Baeten, J.C.M., Ball, T., de Boer, F.S. (eds) Theoretical Computer Science. TCS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7604. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33475-7_5
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